Dobson, AustinThe Story of Rosina and Other Verses Kegan, Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1895. 8vo Maroon cloth boards with titles and elaborate decoration in gilt on upper board and spine, t.e.g., board edges beveled, in the publisher's printed paper dust-wrapper; pp. xiii; 120, plus frontis and 21 b/w plates, and additional headpieces throughout. Corners bumped, offsetting to endpages, chip to the bottom of p. xiii, else clean and bright; the jacket is sunned at the spine, with chips out at the spine tips and corners

John WisdenJohn Wisden's Cricketers' Almanack for 1895 - 1895 Wisden Rebound Like Hardbacks , Special. This is a very special 1895 Wisden, rebound by Wisden in the middle of the 20th Century to mimic an 1896 hardback, a quirky Wisden that will appeal to some. The similarities to a hardback are that the paste downs are yellow (with a Liverpool cricket club stamp) , the gilt on the covers and spine are identical to that of an 1896. It is slightly smaller by 1/8th inch , smoky top to page block and severe foxing around photo plate, the uniqueness is what will appeal. Hard to price up but Gorringes sold a similar copy (spine less like an 1896) for £750+20% and selling for less than we purchased it for.

Jules VerneL'Ile A Helice Jules Verne elaborately decorated book of the Voyages Extraordiniare, L'Ile A Helice, in near fine condition. This edition has the original elaborate multi coloured boards and gilt edges. The book contains eighty illustrations by L. Bennet in black and white and colour. Written in French.
Ornate embellished cloth boards and a red and black illustrated rear board. The spine is very lightly faded. Bright gilt page edges. Clean end papers. The contents are clean and tidy. 1cm tear on half title page. 423 printed pages with advertisements for 1895-96 at the end of the book. 4to

GRAY, John Alfred.At the Court of the Amir A Narrative. Bentley London 1895 - First edition. 8vo., xvii, 523pp., portrait frontispiece, title-page vignette, 3 plates, original green pictorial cloth gilt, short tear to head of spine, joints cracked but firm, a very good copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

MORRIS, William.Gossip About an Old House on the Upper Thames. [Birmingham,: Printed at the Press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft Ltd, November, 1895]. The first printing - a Buxton Forman creation with the booklabel of one of the founders of the William Morris Society. No.37 of 50 copies. Wood engraving of Kelmscott Manor by C.M. Gere as the frontispiece (originally used in the Kelmscott Press News from Nowhere) and two other wood engravings by Edmund New, woodcut initials. Pp. ii, 14. 4to., original blue boards iwth title printed in black on the upper cover, in plain paper dust jacket with manuscript title date and edition number on the upper cover. A very good copy with the booklabel of Freeman Bass, the co-founder of the Morris Society. Some browning to free endpapers which seems to verify that the plain jacket was present when the book was issued. Deemed to be a form of piracy by Buxton Forman, the forger, it is conjectured that this book was directly extracted from the 50 copies of The Quest No. IV where the text was published first and dressed up in a new binding with an added colophon which read "Printed at the press of the Birmingham Guild of Handicraft Limited, published in "The Quest" for November MDCCCXCV, and fifty copie sdone in this separate form." It is pretty obvious when one looks at the difference between the text and printing and typography of the half title and colophon. In his Morris bibliography Buxton Forman justifies the book referring to it as a 'choice littel book, of the same typography as the magazine'. On the plus side we now know that we are getting the first printing of Morris's words rather than an offprint in the second printing.

Erasteme RamiroSupplement au Catalogue de l'Oeuvre Grave de Felicien Rops. Illustrations de Felicien Rops, Fleurons et Culs-de-lampe par Armand Rassenfosse Paris: Librairie Floury 1895 - *Price HAS BEEN reduced this weekend as part of our November ABEBOOKS SALE* limited to 50 copies on Hollande, this being copy #23; quarto, 171 (text) pp., frontis. and 5 plates each in three states, with 10 single-page plates at the end; original illustrated paper wrappers with glassine protector, fine in a worn slipcase. Photos available upon request.

Conrad, JosephAlmayer's Folly New York: Macmillan and Co, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. 276 + 3 pp. of ads. Bound in black cloth with double rule border in blind on covers, "The Macmillan Company" at the foot of the spine; Cagle's B binding, with no established priority. Very Good with light rubbing to cloth, slight darkening to spine, faint shelf lean, previous owner rubber stamp to front free end paper and pages lightly toned. A rather bright copy of Joseph Conrad's first published novel, involving a Dutch trader in the jungle of Borneo. One of 650 copies originally printed.

VariousThe Story of. Simply Told for General Readers. Twelve Volumes of "The Story of" includes Weather, Stars, Germ Life, Religions, Mind, Alphabet, Bird Life, Life in the Seas, Plants, Earth, Primitive Man, Piece of Coal George Newnes, United Kingdom 1895 - George Newnes, Ltd., London. Twelve Volumes. Hardback. Book Condition: Very Good. All volumes have tight bindings with all pages intact. Minimal shelf wear with bumping to corners and edges. Owners name to front endpaper. The Story of Plants The Story of the Earth The Story of a Piece of Coal The Story of a Primitive Man The Story of the Stars The Story of the Weather The Story of Germ Life The Story of Religions The Story of the Mind The Story of Birdlife The Story of the Alphabet The Story of Life in the Seas Additional costs will be incurred if shipping internationally due to weight. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Rosenthal, S. [Solomon].THE VICTORY IN SPECIAL SESSIONS. THE RELIGIOUS PROCEEDINGS IN ESSEX MARKET COURT AND IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL SESSIONS, WHICH ANTHONY COMSTOCK INSTITUTED BY CONFISCATING THE BOOK ENTITLED [New York], N.D.. No Date [1895? ]. 1st Edition. Original Paper Wrappers. 8vo. 65 pages; 19 cm. In Yiddish with Yiddish and English title page. Singerman 4911. The first monograph defending Jewish anti-missionary publications against censorship in America. An American Jewish lawyer documents his case against infamous Post Office Inspector Anthony Comstock

POYNTING FRANK:EGGS OF BRITISH BIRDS: WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR BREEDING-HABITS 1895-6 R.H. PORTER, LONDON. THIS WORK WAS ISSUED IN FOUR PARTS FROM OCTOBER 1895 TO JULY 1896. IT COVERS THE LIMICOLAE ( PLOVERS, SANDPIPERS....). IN THIS VOLUME THE PARTS HAVE BEEN BOUND TOGETHER IN RED HALF- LEATHER OVER MARBLE BOARDS. FOLIO SIZE. MARBLED END PAPERS AND TEG. FRONT END PAPER HAS BECOME DETACHED BUT IS COMPLETE. SOME FOXING THROUGHOUT. 54 COLOURED PLATES IN TOTAL. WITH LIST OF SUBSCIBERS AND AN INDEX OF THE AUTHORS QUOTED. THE ORIGINAL COVERS OF THE PARTS HAVE BEEN BOUND IN. A HANDSOME AND UNUSUAL BOOK FROM THE LIBRARY OF SEPTIMUS HEDGES.

CHILDREN] Louise Quarles Bonte; George Willard BonteABC IN DIXIE: A PLANTATION ALPHABET London | New York: Ernest Nister | E. P. Dutton, 1895. First Edition. The Bontes' best-known work, very much in the flat, brightly colored style favored by Willard Bonte. He also designed greeting cards, boards games and calendars. His "Coon Calendar for 1905" (so inappropriate we can hardly type the words!) ten years after ABC IN DIXIE attests to the mainstream popularity of the imagery. DIXIE -- dreadful though the highly exaggerated caricatures are -- is one of the great examples of its genre, In glazed pictorial boards backed in cloth, this ABC book has a color lithographed half-title, title page, and the 26 letters with a short text depicting a black person on the plantation in dialect and racist stereotypes, facing a full page color plate. The beautiful quality of the printing underscores by contrast the distasteful nature of the contents. Some the leaves have chipping and discreet repairs to closed tears, none affecting the text or images. Some soiling to the boards. No marks or writing in the book.

Dollie RadfordGood Night One of 50 hand coloured copies, signed and numbered by the artist, Louis B Davis. (1860-1941) Davis was an English water- colourist, book illustrator and stained glass artist. Active in the Arts and Crafts movement, Nikolaus Pevsner credited him to be the last of the pre-Raphaelites. A member of the Art Worker's Guild and Society of Painters, he knew William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
The book is a collection of children's poems accompanied by romantic hand- coloured illustrations. A very good copy in publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, cloth spine. A little rubbed at the extremities and some light foxing to the end papers, but otherwise clean and bright throughout. The book was originally designed to be held together with green ribbons, now detached but inserted loosely. No copy held at the British Library. A delightful rarity from the Fin de siecle.